It's better out West.
Adventures from our home in Colorado Springs and our cabin in the mountains. Gardening, prepping, dog wrangling, ranting, etc. I can't promise anything here is useful but it's our way-back machine.
You just might find some nice photo's, recipes, and ideas.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Montreal, Alergies, WWz and stuff

We heading to Montreal for the weekend on a little getaway. I've never done much up across the border and couldn't set up meeting any fellow bloggers so we walked.
A lot.
We put in about 30 miles over the weekend, it's an interesting city. 1.5 million people that seem to be very friendly, get along with each other and don't care about much. The crowds were very diverse and unlike the States, no one really cared who was what. There were also a lot of really nice old churches, something I really enjoy checking out.

I'm a sucker for really nice stained glass. While none of this compared to the Florence, Italy churches, it was still nice to see.

On the way home we flew to Texas and then back up to Colorado Springs. That large 'cloud' is the Walsenburg area fire, 80,000 acres and 40,000 feet tall or so. My allergies had some relief while out of town, but were very debilitating once I landed and milled about for a few hours in the yard. I had to break down and see a doctor for some real medication and picked up some air purifiers for the house. I was able to sleep last night for a change, so the medication seems to be working.
The air purifiers, and I picked up 3 of them, are large and a little loud but they worked great last night when the smoke from the above pictured fire settled in. The wind blew it up fast and low, visibility in town was down to 1.5 miles but inside our house it was perfect.

While in Montreal we hit the cinema for some world war z action. Grocery store scene was pretty awesome, something I think about often if shtf happened. The movie was great, to us, I'll probably see it again this weekend to pick up on all the little things I missed. The popcorn isn't as good in Canada, but it's the small things that matter.

I have some work to do this week on my get home bag and load-out. I have a new thigh holster an g-code insert to piece together, either there isn't enough time or money. Isn't that how life works.

i'm glad to hear that you had a good time in montreal. to be honest, it ties with toronto as being the least friendly place in canada! and i am glad that you got some meds that work as well as the filters - we have a room filter thing and it works like magic cleaning out the air. glad to hear you liked wwz - i am looking forward to it as most of the reviews have been good.

I am sorry about the allergies. I LOVE Montreal. Great shopping,terrific "biftek" in great restaurants, and a chance to use your French. (Although you can use your French in Digby and Clare in Nova Scotia also.) Welcome home !